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Are we getting better today at determining what is real and what isn't due to all the fakery out there? That thought crossed my mind the other day as I received yet another email from a coworker who really wasn't my coworker, an email telling me there was an estate (cash deposit and some real estate) belonging to the late Albert Stahl that someone wanted to discuss with me, and an online profile of someone impossibly beautiful who wanted to meet me. The old adage, "If it's too good to be true, it probably is," still holds true today. Have you heard about deepfakes yet? A deepfake is a fake, digitally manipulated video or audio file produced by using deep learning, an advanced type of machine learning, and typically featuring a person's likeness and voice in a situation that did not actually occur. The videos of Mark Zuckerberg bragging about having "total control of billions of people's stolen data" and Barack Obama calling Donald Trump an unmentionable expletive? Those were deepfakes. |